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LSE Film and Audio Team
The London School of Economics and Political Science public events podcast series is a platform for thought, ideas and lively debate where you can hear from some of the world's leading thinkers. Listen to more than 200 new episodes every year.
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Oct 13, 2025 • 1h 26min
Why we're getting poorer
As the UK economy struggles along while the US seems destined for chaos, evaluating why we’re getting poorer has never seemed more relevant.

Oct 9, 2025 • 1h 30min
Not just lines on a map: borders in a changing world
We are joined by Maya Goodfellow, Tarsis Brito and Luke de Noronha who will each draw on their areas of expertise to discuss the implications of borders in a changing world.

Oct 8, 2025 • 1h 16min
How to save the internet
Join us for this special event where former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will talk about his new book, How to Save the Internet.

Oct 8, 2025 • 1h 27min
The promise and peril of Trump's America first
Donald Trump’s America First is a response to too much globalisation, too much immigration, and too many wars. But has Trump overcorrected?

Oct 7, 2025 • 1h 32min
The crime of war: from the Nuremberg trial to Ukraine
Eighty years on from the start of the Nuremberg War Crime Trial in November 1945 we ask what is the future of the crime of aggression after the creation of the ICC in 1998 and the Ukraine war?

Oct 6, 2025 • 1h 24min
Depopulation: an ethical perspective
Join us for the annual Auguste Comte lecture delivered by Luara Ferracioli, a leading thinker on the philosophy of immigration and the philosophy of the family.

Oct 2, 2025 • 1h 28min
Can human solidarity survive social media and what if it can’t?
Drawing on his recent book, The Space of the World, Nick Couldry will reflect on the global space of social communications and interaction that has been constructed over the past three decades through a commercialized internet and digital platforms.

Oct 1, 2025 • 1h 36min
Racism and racial justice: 40 years on from the Broadwater Farm riots
We explore the legal, political and community-based racial justice work that emerged 40 years ago from the Broadwater Farm riots, examining methods of resistance that continue to address present-day questions of race, racism and social inequality.

Sep 30, 2025 • 1h 24min
How AI is helping - and harming - animals
Learn more about the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience, a new LSE initiative committed to making sure technological change works for - rather than against - the interests of other species.

Sep 29, 2025 • 1h 29min
On natural capital: the value of the world around us
Join us for a conversation with Partha Dasgupta, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, as he discusses his latest book On Natural Capital where he lays out a seminal and groundbreaking new approach to economics.


